A clinic handout from the Midwest Clinic on marches.

This is a summary of "Toccata For Band" by Frank Erickson.

This is a website dedicated to the famous wind band piece, "Four Scottish Dances," by Malcolm Arnold.

This is a PDF file of the various pitch tendencies of wind instruments. Along with a sheet explaining the tendencies for each instrument, a blank worksheet is provided in order for students to fill out for their own understanding of the tendencies of their own instrument. This is valuable when focusing on intonation, balance, and blend within the wind band.

For those who don't know, Dr. John M. Long, founder of the "Sound of the South" at Troy University, is an icon in the band world and has touched many lives for many years. This is a reflection by a former student of his for when Dr. Long was recognized at the Kennedy Center for the Sondheim Award. There is a very inspirational quote at the very end that is something that all students need to hear.

Jazzednet.org is the site for the Jazz Education Network. It offers helpful articles about properly teaching students the elements of jazz education. This particular article, although listed for drum set performance tips, is applicable for the entire rhythm section of your jazz band. It gives helpful tips on how to make your rhythm section understand the feel and flow of the chart by providing a lead sheet so that they become familiar with the melody like the horn players.

The website for the "President's Own" United States Marine Band includes many educational resources. Along with high quality recordings by a phenomenal ensemble, the site offers many other educational aspects, including three volumes of the marches of John Philip Sousa. The marches may be downloaded in PDF format and used by any ensemble. They include the scores, parts, and detailed information on each march. This is great to use in order to teach students about marches and their forms.

Orcehstralbassoon.com is a website that answers a plethora of questions about the bassoon. The bassoon is an instrument that several band directors lack in their own ensembles. When they do have them, many of them do no know how to answer pertinent questions about how to properly play it. This website offers recordings, orchestral excerpts, fingering charts, pedagogical methods, history, and tips on reed making. This is an extremely valuable site for the school band director or orchestral director that wishes to promote good double reed players in their ensemble.

Banddirector.com is a website that offers several resources for band directors. It includes links to several instrument manufacturers, uniform companies, camp locations, videos and articles. This is a great site to use in order to obtain new ideas for your own program.

This is a PDF file for clarinet fingerings. Along with showing the basic fingerings that are generally taught in beginning band, this PDF chart also shows the alternate fingerings that make clarinet playing more practical. This chart is particularly useful for teachers who may have a hard time remembering all of the alternate fingerings that would be useful for certain passages.

On the Vic Firth website for percussion, there are many educational resources. This area focuses on hybrid rudiments. Hybrid rudiments are combinations of basic rudiments to create new ones. One example is putting a flam and a drag together to create a flam drag. Since new combinations are constantly made, there are always new possibilities being created. This is a loose list of current hybrid rudiments. They are shown through video examples.

This is the website for the Dallas Brass. The Dallas Brass have been around since 1983, and one of their primary functions is touring the country to visit schools. It also provides links to information on breathing exercises, efficiency exercises, intonation, and various other clinics. There is also information on how to book them to visit your school.

Slidearea.com is the website for the principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic, Joe Alessi. Within this site are resources that may be used to supplement lessons for trombone students. The tips that are listed are very practical and assist with developing tone, range, and technique. Within the website are also links to information regarding the Julliard School, recordings, mentor professors, Griego Mouthpieces, Smartmusic, Edwards Instruments, Aleesi Publications, and the Alessi Seminar.

This is the video "Modern Electric Bass" in which the famous bassist, Jaco Pastorius, explains his views to approaching not only the bass but music. He explains the importance of musicians approaching music in a melodic fashion and the importance of working hard to become proficient. He further explains the importance of developing both listening and reading skills, improvisation, and gives demonstrations of each concept.